BREAKING: Buhari Orders Conditional Lifting Of Ban On Twitter

Buhari Orders Conditional Lifting Of Ban On Twitter. President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday stated he had directed a conditional lifting of the ban positioned on the operations of the micro running a blog sire, Twitter, in Nigeria in June.

Buhari disclosed this in his nationwide broadcast to Nigerians to mark the nation’s 61st independence.

He described the social media as a really helpful platform however regretted that some customers have misused the platform to organise, coordinate, and execute legal actions, propagate faux information, and promote ethnic and non secular sentiments.

The President stated, “Social media is a really helpful platform that has enabled thousands and thousands of Nigerians to attach with family members, promote their companies, socialise, and entry information and different data.

“Nonetheless, latest occasions have proven that the platform isn’t just an innocuous platform for data dissemination.

“Fairly some customers have misused the platform to organise, coordinate, and execute legal actions, propagate faux information, and promote ethnic and non secular sentiments.

“To handle these detrimental developments, the Federal Authorities of Nigeria suspended the operations of Twitter in Nigeria on June 5, 2021 to permit the Authorities put measures in place to handle these challenges.

“ Following the suspension of Twitter operations, Twitter Inc. reached out to the Federal Authorities of Nigeria to resolve the deadlock. Subsequently, I constituted a Presidential Committee to interact Twitter to discover the potential for resolving the problem.

Lifting Of Ban On Twitter

Lifting Of Ban On Twitter

“The Committee, together with its Technical Group, has engaged with Twitter and have addressed a lot of key points. These are Nationwide Safety and Cohesion; Registration, Bodily presence and Illustration; Honest Taxation; Dispute Decision; and Native Content material.

“Following the in depth engagements, the problems are being addressed and I’ve directed that the suspension be lifted however provided that the circumstances are met to permit our residents proceed using the platform for enterprise and constructive engagements.

“As a rustic, we’re dedicated to making sure that digital firms use their platform to boost the lives of our residents, respect Nigeria’s sovereignty, cultural values and promote on-line security.

Lifting Of Ban On Twitter

Lifting Of Ban On Twitter